When calling org-sort-entries on an outline item, I get the error
Region to sort contains a level above the first entry
with no indication of what or where the problem is.
What does this error mean, and how do you fix it?
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Take an example like this, with a TAB before the 'd' - if you call org-sort-entries on the 'a', you'll get the error - the '*[TAB]d' seems to confuse the function.
* a
** c
* d
** b
You can do a regexp search through the file to find problems like this, e.g. put this at the top of your file and hit C-x C-e after it (eval-last-sexp):
(re-search-forward "^[*]+[\t]")
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1I've got the same problem, but when I try the expression above I get
(void-function find-regexp). Am I missing something or is this function not part of emacs? If the latter one please provide the function. Besides that, I find the whole issue rediculous. Why is org-mode not more robust? Either skipping the error or point to the problem line, so it can be fixed manually. Commented Jan 13, 2019 at 20:35 -
@JensLange ah, I forgot that was an alias I had made for
re-search-forward- was trying to make things easier to remember and discover. But yes, maybe there's something we could do to patch org-mode for this error... Commented Jan 15, 2019 at 8:26 -
I just got this even though the search failed:
Lisp error: (search-failed "^[*]+[\11]"). What should be done to fix the problem in that case ?– serv-incCommented Nov 1, 2022 at 10:27
Simplified: Org thinks that your file has several top-level entries. As written above, this can happen if you have an org-file like
* task 1
** subtask 1
* task 2
** subtask 3
